USNCTAM06 Sessions Schedule


Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednes -day

Thursday

Friday

8:30- 10:00


Plenary

Plenary

Tech 7 (8AM)

Plenary

Plenary

10:20- 12:20


Tech 1

Tech 4

Tech 8

Tech 9

Tech 12

1:00- 3:00

Admin.

Tech 2

Tech 5


Tech 10


3:20- 5:20

Admin.

Tech 3

Tech 6


Tech 11


Evening

Reception

Admin.

Banquet

Banquet




PLENARY SESSIONS

Monday, June26, 8:30 AM, Macky Auditorium

Dr. Starnes Walker, Technical Director and Chief Scientist, Office of Naval Research

Tentative Title:  “Future Mechanics Research for National Defense”

Tuesday, June27, 8:30 AM, Macky Auditorium

Dr. Stanley Bull, Director, Science & Technology Division, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Tentative Title:  “Future Mechanics Research for Energy Independence”

Thursday, June29, 8:30 AM, Macky Auditorium

Prof. Michael Roukes, Director, Kavli Nanoscience Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Tentative Title:  “Future Research in Nanomechanics ”

Friday, June30, 8:30 AM, Macky Auditorium

Prof. Sangtae Kim, Distinguished Professor, M.E. and Ch.E, Purdue University

Tentative Title:  “Future Research in Biomechanics”

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BIOMECHANICS


B1.

Biological and Biologically Inspired Materials (Dinesh Katti, Christian Hellmich) [5,6]

B2.

Applications of Mechanics to Biological Problems (Jim Casey, Gerard Maugin) [7-9]

B3.

Biomechanics of Tissues (Qing Nie, Fred Wan, John Lowengrub) [1-3]

B4.

Cell and Molecular Mechanics (Rohan Abeyaratne, Roger Kamm) [9,10]

B5.

Ecologically Friendly Materials (Romildo Filho, Yunping Xi) [8]

B6.

Mechanics Issues in Bioengineering (Ajit Mal, William Klug) [4,5]

B7.

Mechanics of Materials from Nature (Mary Boyce) [8]


DEVICES/SENSORS/APPLICATIONS


D1.

Mechanics of Next-Generation Nano Electronics and Power Electronics (Cemal Basaran) [9]

D2.

Multiscale Green’s Functions and Molecular Dynamics for Quantum Nanostsructures (Vinod Tewary, Ernian Pan) [4-6]

D3.

Mechanics of Self-Assembly (Ishwar Puri) [12]


FLUID MECHANICS


F1.

Free-Surface Flow (Nikolaos Katopodes, Ben Hodges) [2,3]

F2.

Turbulence (Robert Martinuzzi, Nikolaos Katopodes) [4-6]

F3.

Mixing in Microfluidic Systems (Nadine Aubry) [7,8]

F4.

Fluid Mechanics Involving Drops and Bubbles (Gary Leal, Robert Davis) [5,6]

F5.

Linear and Nonlinear Acoustics (Andrew Norris) [9,10]

F6.

Vortex Dynamics (Hassan Aref) [7,8]

F7.

Suspensions (Jeff Morris, Jonathan Higdon) [7,8]

F8.

Jet, Drop, and Bubble Breakup in Small-Scale Flows (Osman Basaran, Matteo Pasquali) [1-3]

F9.

Multiphase and Stratified Flows (S. Socolofsky) [1]

F10.

Fluid-Structure Interaction (R. Martinuzzi) [7]

F11.

Very High Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layers (Meredith Metzger,Joseph Klewicki, Scott Morris) [11]

F12.

Dense Gas Mechanics (Brian Argrow) [12]

F13.

Nonlinear Dynamics (George Haller, Thomas Peacock) [10,11]

F14.

Biomimetic and Bio-Inspired Propulsion (Kamran Mohseni, Rajat Mittal) [1-3]


INVERSE/PROBABILISTIC/COUPLED MECHANICS


I1.

Inverse Problems (Murthy Guddati, Bojan Guzina) [3]

I2.

Probabilistic Mechanics and Uncertainty (Jack Zhao, Lori Graham-Brady) [10-11]

I3.

Probabilistic Representation of Input and System Properties (Richard Field,Mircea Grigoriu, Steve Wojtkiewicz) [7]


MATERIALS


M1.

Constitutive Modeling of Frictional Materials (C.S. Chang, V.N. Kaliakin) [5,6]

M2.

Inelastic Failure and Fracture Response of Materials under Extreme Loads (G. Thiagarajan, B.P. DiPaolo) [11]

M3.

Mechanics of Cellular Materials (Stelios Kyriakides, Andy Kraynik) [1-4]

M4.

Mechanics of Macromolecular Solids at High Strain Rates (Mary Boyce) [9,10]

M5.

Multi-Scale Modeling of Nano-, Bio-, and Cellular Materials (Xin-Lin Gao, Markus Buehler) [1-5]

M6.

Properties of Materials (Yunping Xi) [7-11]

M7.

Behavior of Dry and Partially Saturated Granular Materials (Pierre Hicher, Ning Lu) [11]

M8.

Bifurfaction and Instability of Geological and Granular Materials (Marte Gutierrez, Kathleen Issen, Matthew Kuhn) [4,6-8]

M9.

Wave Propagation in Granular Materials (Anil Misra, Martin Sadd) [12]

M10.

Mechanics of New Materials for Everyday Life (Anne Dusssaud) [9-11]

M11.

Imaging to Modeling: A Frontier for Computational Mechanics (Ozden Ochoa, Endel Iarve) [9,10]

M12.

Damage and Healing in Synthetic Materials (Nancy Sottos, Alan Jones) [4,5]


SOLID/STRUCTURAL MECHANICS


S1.

Advances in Structural Stability (H. Rasheed) [4-6]

S2.

Failure Analysis of Solids & Structures (Michael Ortiz, Kaspar Willam, Paul Steinmann) [1-3]

S3.

Instabilities in Solids, Structures and Materials (Edmundo Corona, Stelios Kyriakides) [4-8]

S4.

Inelastic Behavior of Materials and Structures (Majid Manzari, James Cox, Rajah Anandarajah, Vic Kaliakin, Michael Puso) [9-11]

S5.

Mechanics in Structural Health Monitoring (Sauvik Banerjee, Ajit Mal) [1,2]

S6.

Structural Health Monitoring and Control (Satish Nagarajaiah, Eric Johnson) [3,4]

S7.

Multi-Scale Modeling and Response of Nano-Structures (Eric Mockensturm, Arvind Raman) [9,10]

S8.

Nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction and Soil Dynamics (Majid Manzari) [1]

S9.

Mindlin Symposium – 100th anniversary/birthday (X. Chen, Rui Huang, Ron Pak) [1-12]

S10,

Elasticity and Continuum Mechanics (Gearoid MacSithigh, K. R. Rajagopal, Darren Mason) [11,12]

S11.

Nonlocal and Generalized Continua for Solids (Richard Regueiro, Doug Bamann, George Voyiadjis) [7,8]

S12.

Poromechanics (Younane Abousleiman, Alex Cheng) [9]

S13.

Mechanics of Flexible Pavements (Linbing Wang, Eyad Masad, Vassilis Panoskaltsis) [4-6]

S14.

Impact-Blast Mechanics (Sia Nemat-Nasser) [11,12]

S15.

Revisiting the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers (Zdenek Bazant, Ross Corotis) [3]

S16.

Hybrid Simulation (Victor Saouma) [8]

S17.

Dynamic Systems (David Bogy) [1,2]


UNIQUE TOPICS


U1.

Unique Fluid Mechanics (Stein Sture and Tom Geers) [6]

U2.

Unique Solid Mechanics (Tom Geers and Stein Sture) [6]

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